| 单词 | to get by the short hairs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto get (a person) by the short hairs P15. to get (a person) by the short hairs (formerly to get (a person, etc.) where the hair is short): to have complete control over. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > get into one's or its control temea1387 to take hold1577 to lay, fasten a gripe on, upona1586 amenage1590 to get (a person, etc.) where the hair is short1872 cinch1875 to get a handle on1901 to sew up1904 1872 G. P. Burnham Mem. U.S. Secret Service 207 You've got me where the ha'r is short! What a cursed fool I have been. 1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad xx. 193 I had to tackle this miserable language... I've got it where the hair's short, I think. 1888 R. Kipling Wee Willie Winkie 67 Then they'll rush in, and then we've got 'em by the short hairs! 1928 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 150/1 Those Chinhwan really did seem to have got the rest of the world by the short hairs. 1930 D. L. Sayers & ‘R. Eustace’ Documents in Case i. 25 She's evidently got her husband by the short hairs. < as lemmas |
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